Andrew Cashner again wasn’t quite perfect and the Padres’ offense again struggled to score in a 1-0 loss to the Dodgers on Sunday afternoon at Petco Park.

The Good.

Lasting impression. RHP Andrew Cashner didn’t flirt with perfection this time – he gave up his first hit to the third batter of the game (SS Hanley Ramirez) – but he was plenty good in what figures to be his last start of the season. He matched a season-high with seven strikeouts, didn’t walk a batter and scattered an unearned run and four hits over seven innings. The Dodgers managed their only run off Cashner in the seventh inning, getting a one-out single from 1B Adrian Gonzalez and a two-out double from 3B Michael Young that scored Gonzalez from first when RF Will Venable had trouble picking up the ball cleanly off the warning track. Cashner presumably finishes the year with a 10-9 record and a 3.09 ERA.

Pen battle. Both bullpens were unscored-upon after the starters left the game. For the Dodgers,’ J.P Howell pitched a perfect sixth inning, RHP Chris Withrow threw two scoreless innings and RHP Kenley Jansen struck out the side in the ninth for his 27th save. For the Padres, RHP Nick Vincent struck out the side in the eighth inning and LHP Colt Hynes and RHP Luke Gregerson combined on three quick outs in the ninth. With Cashner not walking anyone, Padres pitchers had a 13-to-0 strikeout to walk ratio in the loss.

The Bad

More RISP-y business. It will be hard for Cashner to win games like this next year, too, if the Padres don’t find more offense. They managed just two hits – both off RHP Zack Greinke in his five innings of work – and went 0-for-3 with runners in scoring position. For the series, they were hitless in 20 at-bats in those situations.

No RBIs. Venable’s seventh-inning error allowed the only run of the game to score, marking the first time the Padres have lost a game that did not have an RBI in it since Sept. 24, 2000, when they lost to the Dodgers in Los Angeles. It was also the first time since Sept. 14, 2010, that the Dodgers were involved in a game that did not have an RBI in it.